ACT Veterans Athletic Club
Course Description

 

 

O'Connor Ridge

How to get there.
Turn off Haydon Drive Bruce onto Purdie Street.  Both courses (long course & short course) start and finish on the cycle path inside the fence of the Nature Park., parallel to Purdie St Bruce, just before the intersection with Vowels Cr (East). (Yellow Pages Map 48 J4)

Course Descriptions 
Long Course (8k) (Thomas Series)
Proceed East on the cycle path for 300m, mostly downhill, then through the underpass and turn right then left through the gate into the Nature Park. Turn left immediately and follow the dirt track. At about 1.2K turn left again and over the style to cross the cycle path to O”Conner Ridge. Proceed clockwise (and up) around the ridge, bounded by Gungahlin Drive, Gininderra Dr and Dryandra St. Return and cross the cycle path back to Bruce Ridge, and then turn left to rejoin the dirt track and follow the track along the back of the caravan park. About 500m past the caravan park turn and return to the start without the O’Connor Ridge loop.

Short Course (4k) (Frylink and Waddell Series)
Proceed east on the cycle path for 300m, mostly downhill, then through the underpass and turn right then left through the gate into the Nature Park. Turn left immediately and follow the dirt track. Follow the dirt track past the point where the Thomas Series turn and along the back of the caravan park. At the end of the caravan park (2K) turn and return to the start.